[/29 March 1921]

I. Workers and specialists employed at concession enterprises shall receive wages according to the tariffs established by the government of the RSFSR on the general basis applicable to Russian workers.

2. Remuneration of labor at concession enterprises shall be carried out exclusively in Russian currency.

3. Specialists and workers invited by concessionaires from abroad are entitled to transfer a portion of their salary abroad for the support of their families through the People's Bank of the RSFSR.

4. Concessionaires are entitled to issue to persons employed at their enterprises food items, clothing, and household furnishings at their discretion, provided, however, that the minimum quantity of items issued to workers shall not fall below the minimum established by the corresponding legislative acts of the RSFSR.

5. In cases where food and other items of consumption are issued to workers and employees at concession enterprises, in accordance with § 2, the total value of items issued above the established minimum shall be determined according to the [scale] scale of ratios established by the government of the RSFSR.

6. The government of the RSFSR assumes no guarantees whatsoever for ensuring food and material provisions for persons employed at concession enterprises.

7. Concessionaires are granted the right to provide workers and employees employed at the enterprises they operate with all types of provisions, both through purchases at trading enterprises of the Republic and through importation from abroad in compliance with the laws in force on customs duties. In individual cases specially stipulated, the government of the RSFSR may undertake to act as intermediary in purchases through cooperative organizations of provision items for concession enterprises.

25/III 21    A. Goltzman
M. Tomsky

135*7

((Obvious contradiction)) between § 1 and 5.
§ 6 (contradiction)

NOTES ON CONCESSIONS

[March 1921]

Concessions
1) directives?
2) provisions, etc.
3) arbiters?
4) other?

SKF (Swedish)
[/ § 7 (??) provisions.
24. raw materials, fuel, energy—we—or if not timely], beyond [...]
35 and 36. Professors and academicians as arbiters?

¹ It was not possible to establish the exact date and find the agreement corresponding to Lenin's notes.